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ברכות י,ב
The gemora says that a person should daven from a low place ‘מעמקים קראתיך ה Hashem, I call you from the depths.
The Dubna Magid gives a mashel on this.
A young man was taken in my a king, providing him all his necessities. The King had a favorite robe that he enjoyed wearing. At once the young man and robe disappeared. The king dispatched his soldiers to search for him. They found him hiding in a pit wearing the king’s robe. When the soldiers asked him what are you
doing? He said I am hiding because I feel so ashamed that I cannot show my face for stealing the kings robe after all the good he has provided me.
The nimshal is that Hashem provides us all the necessities and we steal it away from Him by using it for the wrong purpose, so when we daven we call to Him from the depths being ashamed to show ourselves because of our actions.